Figure skating - European Championships 2014
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After eight years after the last successful designer Slutskaja'', a Russian figure skater is back calling the shots at the continental level.
Friday 17 January 2014 7 minutes reading time
The "Syma Hall" Budapest was, in fact, the scene of the triumph of debutante Julia Liptnitskaia,'' in which chance has set a new European record
Fifteen coached by Tutberdize ethers, second at the end of the first segment of the race, he dominated the free program by completing the beauty of two double axel and seven triple jumps, including two lutz (from the wire, however, I suspect). The dish of the house turned out to be, as usual, spins, which enabled it to earn valuable points compared to direct rivals for success. In light of today's performance, Lipnitskaia you put them among the contenders for an Olympic medal, a strong score so far crossed only by Korean Kim Yu-Na, Olympic and World Champion in office.
In the second position, confirming the result of last season, she finished the seventeen year old Muscovite Adelina Sotnikova, during the race to become the first Budapesto European skater to break the threshold of 200 points. Unfortunately, for the'' student of Elena Buianova European record lasted less than a quarter of an hour''. That said, after starting complex, characterized by a landing with step-out of a triple lutz, was able to react better to completing two double axel and five triple jumps, including a Rittberger to the limit with the rotation. Jumps aside, Sotnikova, in line with what happened in the short-program may regret not running a perfect combo with top gear foot that has failed the low position, sine qua non to go beyond level one.
The'' waiting Carolina Kostner took to the track to the tune of "Bolero" by Ravel, free of last season, has had to settle for third place. confirming the podium for the ninth consecutive year. In the longer segment of the race, the defending champion, having expressed a level of excellence for two minutes, he paid twenty seconds of blackouts during which he first achieved a double Rittberger, instead of three times, and then unexpectedly fell on a triple toe loop missing from the rotation. Among the positive aspects, ranging remarkability the remarkable overall score on the components of the program (71,02 new European record) and the sequence of steps that not only got the highest level available, but has also garnered the highest degree possible execution by all judges.
The test team for the'' Italy EU has been of great value. Valentina Marchei, older skater in the race, has filed the seventh in career placement among the top ten finishing in sixth position. So how Kosnter, filed after the first part of free very convincing, complete with a triple lutz and double axel triple toe loop combination, it is partly lost in the second half of the music landing with a hand on the ground the first triple salchow and then falling on the second attempt of the triple lutz. Beyond a few smudges on the technical front, the'' student Jason Dungjen has passed for the first time in his career the wall of the sixty points in the components of the program, evidence of overall growth that has characterized the past few seasons.
Roberta Rodeghiero, driven by the ninth day of free, he got a surprising eleventh legitimizing the selection criteria established by the Technical Committee Italian. The twenty-three stationed in Sesto San Giovanni is afforded the luxury of complete full six triples revealing strength from technical point of view and making progress also on the components of the program, not exactly the specialty of the house.
At the foot of the podium, stood the veteran Russian Alena Leonova and France's Mae Berenice Meite, able to retouch the national record. The main disappointment of the day brings, imvece, the name of Victoria Helgesson, caused by too many steps to empty the elements of the jump and in the end only the fourteenth, outshone by the younger sister Joshi, ninth.
In light of today's result, Russia and Italy will field three athletes in the upcoming exhibition continental France, Estonia, Germany, Sweden and Georgia will have two seats.
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